11 Life Saving and World Changing LDS Humanitarian Aid Donations
A soft cry shatters the silence. It comes from half the world away. Someone is in trouble. Someone is in need. A hero is sought. And that hero is usually Clark Kent in a very fictional setting. Or, maybe, some other super hero that can control the weather or something. If there is a super hero that controls the weather (we’re looking at you Storm! ), it’s a total rip off of Brigham Young, FYI! With increasing frequency, though, in the real world the ears that many of those cries for help flutter into are LDS. And the LDS definitely respond. Not too terribly long ago, in 2009, President Monson added a fold to the mission: “The LDS Church is adding "to care for the poor and needy" to its longstanding "threefold mission," which is to preach the LDS gospel, purify members' lives and provide saving ordinances such as baptism to those who have died.” ( http://archive.sltrib.com/story.php?ref=/lds/ci_13965607 ) And we’ve take...